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business from vtb. hello. in vtb - this is a classic. vtb does not need a dowry. do you know what happened before the coup d'etat in ukraine? in 2013, the president of ukraine, viktor yanukovych, negotiated with the european union on an association agreement that would have abolished duties on most ukrainian goods for the european union, and vice versa. and then, when he met with his russian colleagues, we told him that ukraine is part of

the cis free trade zone, and there are no duties there, no duties. russia negotiated a wto agreement for 17 years, mainly because we negotiated the terms. we got some protection for many of our sectors, including agriculture. and we explained to the ukrainians that if they wanted duty-free trade with the eu, russia would have to put up customs on the border with ukraine, otherwise duty-free european goods would flood our markets and hurt the sectors of our economy that we were trying to protect. we made.

an offer to the eu: ukraine - our common neighbor, you want to trade more effectively with ukraine, we want the same. ukraine wants to have markets in europe, in russia. let's sit down and discuss this like adults. the head of the european commission, the european commission. barossa, his name was. he said. that it is none of our business what the eu does with ukraine. the european union is not asking us to discuss russian trade with canada. it was an absolutely arrogant answer. then the president of ukraine yanukovych called his experts, who said that it would not be very good if they.

but the customs border with russia would be closed, with the european union, and the russian side would check all goods so that the russian market would not suffer, in november 2013 yanukovych announced that he could not immediately sign the agreement and asked the european union to postpone it until the following year, this was the trigger for the maidan, yes, which was immediately organized, ended in a coup d'etat, for them it was either or, the first coup d'etat took place in ukraine in 2004, when after the second round of the presidential elections viktor won yanukovych. the west made a scandal.

put pressure on the constitutional court of ukraine to rule that there should be a third round. the constitution of ukraine says that only two rounds are possible, and the constitutional court of ukraine, under pressure from the west , violated the country's constitution for the first time, a pro-western candidate was chosen, while all this was still happening and seething, european leaders publicly said that the people of ukraine should decide who they are with, the eu or russia? yes, that's how the big ones behave. we are neighbors, geography is important, very but russia is also a neighbor of western europe,

you are essentially part of it. western europe wants to approach our borders through ukraine. they had plans, they discussed. almost openly to place british naval bases on the sea of ​​azov, they looked at crimea and dreamed of creating a nato base there. we had friendly relations with finland. and overnight the finns returned to the early years. preparation for the second world war, when they were hitler's best allies, everything was forgotten, all, all the friendship, the joint sauna visits, hockey games, everything

disappeared in an instant, maybe it was deep in their hearts, and neutrality and friendliness weighed on them, i don’t know, can you negotiate with zelensky? you said that he has exceeded his term of office and is no longer the democratically elected president of ukraine. do you consider him a suitable partner for negotiations? russian president vladimir putin has spoken out on this topic on numerous occasions. in september 2022 , in the first year of the special military operation, zelensky, convinced that he would dictate terms to the west, signed a decree banning any negotiations with putin's government, when

russian president putin was asked at public events after this episode why russia was not ready for negotiations, he responded that there was no need to turn everything upside down. he said that russia was ready for negotiations , provided that the balance of interests was taken into account, but zelensky signed a decree banning negotiations, and he should first suggest that he publicly cancel it. this would be a signal that zelensky wants negotiations. instead, he came up with his own peace formula. then he added to it " they say, when they meet the european union in other formats, they keep saying, no deal, if the deal is not on our terms,

now they are planning a second summit, based on this peace formula, they... are not shy about saying that they will invite russia, to present it with the fact that they have already agreed with the west, and the statement of our western colleagues, nothing about ukraine without ukraine, essentially implies nothing of russia without russia, they... discuss what conditions we should accept, by the way, recently they violated this concept, such information is coming in, they

know our position, we are not playing a double game, the goal of the special military operation is primarily for linguistic and religious rights. the rights of national minorities, this is fully consistent with the principles of the osce, this organization is still alive, following the results of its several summits it was clearly stated that security must be indivisible, no one should strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other states. the most important thing is that no organization in the euro-atlantic space

will claim dominance, the last time this was confirmed by the osce was in 2010, nato did everything exactly the opposite, yes, our position is legal, there is no nato on our doorstep, the osce agreed that this should not be, if it harms on...

they say hello, some exchange a few words, but i never impose my society, but there is nothing significant behind this, it becomes toxic when someone sees that... i'm talking to an american or a european, europeans generally run away when they see me, it was like that during the last g20 summit, grown people, but they behaved like children, unbelievable. you said that in december 2016 , the obama administration left a lot of problems for the new administration. in the last month since the elections in the region

there have been various political events in georgia, belarus, romania, and then, most noticeably, in syria, there are unrest, don't you think this is part of the us effort to make things difficult? frankly, this is nothing new, historically the us in foreign policy has sought to create some trouble and then see if they can fish in troubled waters. iraqi aggression, libyan adventure, or basically the destruction of the state. the flight from afghanistan is now trying to get back in through the back door. using the un to organize some

events that they can attend, despite the fact that they left afghanistan is in a deplorable state, they froze afghan money and do not want to return it, if you analyze american foreign policy, their adventures, most of them, then you can see a pattern. first they create problems, and then they look at how to use them. when the osce observed the elections in russia, these were always extremely negative reports. it was the same in belarus and kazakhstan. this time in georgia, the osce observer mission presented

a positive report. when you like the election results and approval of the procedures is needed, then you recognize them, if you don't like the results of the elections, you ignore them, it's similar to how the united states and other western countries recognized the unilateral declaration of independence of kosovo, stating that... in this way the right to self-determination is exercised, there was no referendum in kosovo, there was a unilateral declaration of independence. by the way, after that the serbs appealed

to the international court of justice. international observers, they were not from international organizations, and parliamentarians from europe, asia, the post-soviet space. the westerners said they couldn't accept it because it was supposedly a violation of territorial integrity. you know, it's like picking the right one. the un charter is not a menu. you have

to respect it in its entirety. who paid the rebels who captured part of aleppo? is the bashar al-assad government in danger of falling, what exactly do you think is happening in syria, when the crisis broke out in syria, we had an agreement, we organized the astana format with the participation of russia, turkey and iran, we meet regularly, another meeting is planned before the end of this year or next year. to discuss the situation on the ground, and the rules of the game are to help the syrians come to an agreement with each other and prevent the strengthening of separatist threats, this is what the americans are doing in the east of syria when

they feed some kurdish separatists, using ... profits from the sale of oil and grain resources that they use, the astana format is useful to bring the participants together, and we are very concerned, after everything that happened in aleppo and its environs, i spoke with the minister. to try to meet this week, we agreed did you foresee this? i hope we can meet in doha. on the sidelines of the international conference. we would like to discuss the need to return to strict implementation

of the idlip agreements, because the idlib de-escalation zone. became the place from which the terrorists moved to capture aleppo. the agreements reached in 2019 and 2020 allowed our turkish friends to control the situation in the idleb de-escalation zone and separate hayad tahrir al-sham, formerly jabhatanna. the m5 highway from damascus to aleppa, which is now also completely captured by terrorists. we, as foreign ministers,

would like to discuss the situation, hopefully we can do this next friday. the military and security personnel of all three countries are in contact with each other. who is supporting these terrorist islamist groups, which you just mentioned. we have information. we would like to discuss this with all our partners in this process, how to close the channels, their financing and armament, the information in the public domain mentions, in particular, the americans, the british. and some others, some say that israel is interested in aggravating

the situation so that the gaza strip is not under such close attention. this is a complex game, many players are involved . i hope that the planned events for this week meetings will help stabilize the situation. what do you think of president-elect donald trump? i have met him several times when he met with russian president vladimir putin, and he has also received me in the oval office twice when i came for bilateral talks, and i think he is a strong person who wants to achieve results, who does not like to...

respect any choice that people make when they vote, and we respect the choice of the american people, and as president vladimir said putin, we are open, have always been open to contacts with the current administration. we will see everything when donald trump takes office, as vladimir putin said, the ball is in

their court. we have never interrupted our contacts in the sphere of economy, trade, security and so on. the last question. how sincerely are you concerned about the escalation of the conflict between. and the united states, we started with this question, i think this is the main question. yes, the europeans are whispering to each other, saying that zelensky should not dictate the terms of the negotiations, this is the lot of the us and russia. i do not think that we should present our contacts in such a way. that allegedly two decide for all, in no case, this is not our style, we prefer

to act the same way as in brics and sco, there is really embodied the principle of sovereign equality of states, enshrined in the un charter. the us is not used to respecting this principle. the americans say that ... they cannot allow russia to win in ukraine, because this will undermine the world order based on rules, and it is american dominance, the north atlantic alliance, at least under the joe biden administration, is looking at the entire eurasian continent, these indo-pacific strategies.

japan, australia, new zealand, south korea, the united states, south korea and japan are creating a military alliance with separate nuclear components. in 2023, after the summit, then nato secretary general jensoldenberg said that atlantic security is inseparable from security in the indo-pacific region.

states, i say this because some time ago, the coordinator for strategic communications of the us national security council, john kirby, answering questions about escalation and the possibility of using nuclear weapons, said that the americans do not want escalation. if there is any nuclear element, then their european allies will suffer, so even mentally, he excludes that the united states can suffer, this makes the situation a little more risky, perhaps, if this prevails,

that will be... a dangerous game, and talk of a limited nuclear exchange is an invitation to a catastrophe that we do not want. mr. lavrov, thank you very much, thank you.